[potatoicecoffee]

I like looking at stack overflow for coding examples and seeing a couple of nerds getting angry at each other about the best way to do stuff. or some interesting other ways of doing stuff. this is also why i come to HN! so its weird when people want to drop that small joy from their workday

[jack_pp]

It's hard to keep that mindset after a while. People get tired of the same old pattern that's just ever so slightly different than last time. When something becomes repetitive you get bored of it. Or if the complexity of the solution you're working on is brought by a lot of moving parts it isn't a problem of figuring out the best programming truth so much as just being able to focus on the issue and keep all those moving parts in your head. That's tiring so you try to offload as much as you can on another brain

[joseda-hg]

It is lovely when doing exploratory research, less so when in a hurry and you don't want to take the extra mental effort to figure out which of the nerds is right or if one of them is talking out of left field

[frogsRnice]

As opposed to wondering if the llm is hallucinating?

You have to expend a mental effort to think about your solutions anyway; I guess it’s pick your poison really.

[singularity2001]

i've never been as disgusted by a website as by stack overflow so getting rid of that drastically improves joy

[hackernewds]

hard disagree. the amount of snobbiness and rude closing of threads as power trips was unbearable. I'm glad LLMs learned off them and we are where we are now

[bilekas]

I've often heard this often and I don't buy it. Granted some mods could give some more time for users to rewrite but that's all. Users write bad questions or don't look up answers already solving it. It's a skill issue. Regardless trusting an LLM that's confidentiality incorrect a bit too offen is not really a trade up.

If you consider most of the questions may not be actually "new questions" and have answers already, sometimes if it's important enough it's worth actually putting the effort in to understand the problem and solve it yourself. The over dependance that people are developing on LLMs is a little concerning.